Improvement in shoe-nails



@uiten gwn-g digan, @Him JAMES M, BENT, or WAYLAND, MassariHUsE'rTs Letters Patent No. 74,745, dated February 25, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-MILS.

Be it known that I, JMES M. BENT, of Wayland, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement'. in Nails for Boots and Shoes, of which the following, with the drawings, is a description.

My invention consists simply in constructing the vnail with a conical: or countersunk head, and itsvalue consists in its capacity of being drivel/iso as to countersink the head below the surface of the leather, and so allen' of'la finishing over the nail; and also of its wearing down to the shank without entirely Weariiig off the head, and without destroying 4or essentially diminishing its holding-power. The dra-Wing shows the f'orxn of' the nail. i

The head of the nail, instead of being flat on both under and upper sides, is dat only on.the upper side, and from thence is essentially conical or pyramidal, base upward, and diminishingdownward to the shank part, which may he longer or shorter, as desired, for diii'erent kinds of work.

I am informed that counter-clout nails have been made which have countersinks under their heads, :1nd`

chisel points. My shoe-nail differs from these-in shape, and is used for a different purpose. Cutting of?, the head of a counter-clout nail will not make of it `what is known as a shoe-nail, and putting a'conical head to an ordinary shoe-nail will not make of it a counterecloutnail. My naii is an invention of my own. I could 6nd nothing like it in use anywhere. I could not find it at nail-makers or hardware shops, or shoemaliers or finders. I was compelled to get such as I wanted made expressly for me, upon my description and order. Iroin my using them, and from that alone, other shoemakers have begun to use them, deriving their knowledge entirely from my invention and introduction of' the article. My naiiis unlike a counter-clout nail, and, as I verily believe, was never known or used before I invented it. It is an ordinary headlesscut shoe-nail, combined with a conical head, having two sides, from the root of 4the head to the end, tapering, and .two sides parallel, and the end blunted. A i i `What I claim, therefore, as a new article of manufacture, is-

The cut shoe-nail, with conical head, and tapering and 4parallel sides, as described.

In testimony whereof, IA have hereunto subscribed my name.

JAMES BENT.

Witnesses:

. W. M. PARKER, E. M. STEVENS. 

